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August 31, 2012

Delhi Police Fumble Iran Bomb Probe

Gareth Porter, Asia Times

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The Delhi Police Special Cell, which has accused an Indian journalist and four Iranians of conspiring to bomb an Israeli embassy car in Delhi on February 13, has a long history of planting evidence on those it has accused and of obtaining false confessions, according to court records now cited by critics of the police unit.

The Special Cell (SC) was organised in 1986 to investigate terrorism and major crimes, but it has been given such wide latitude in its operations...

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TAGGED: Terrorism, Israel, Iran, India

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